Above: Pita Aatami (center), President of the Makivik Corporation, Nunavik, visited the UW in early February. Just before his public lecture, “From Igloos to the Internet,” he spent some time with Stephen Hanson, Vice Provost, Global Affairs (left), and Anand Yang, Director, Jackson School of International Studies By Jean-François Arteau Jean-François Arteau is Legal Advisor

By Fritz Wagner, Landscape Architecture In late March I traveled to Québec as part of a site visit for a study-in-Québec program that will be offered in Summer Quarter 2011. The trip provided me with the opportunity to be in Quebec to see the physical places I plan on taking students and moreover gave me

Charlotte Coté, American Indian Studies, traveled to Chiapas during spring break to study food security issues in Indigenous communities in Mexico as a comparative model for her research on Indigenous food security efforts in Canada.

Natalie Debray, Communication, provided an overview of gay and lesbian rights in Canada prior to the screening of this popular Canadian movie.

Above: Douglas Janoff (left), author of Pink Blood, facilitated a roundtable on homophobic violence in Canada with participation from Roger Leishman (center), attorney on the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, and Terry Price, legislative counsel to the Washington state legislature. By Anne Hilton, Outreach Coordinator, Canadian Studies Center In

Above: Terry Fenge is an Ottawa-based consultant. In October 2009 he visited Marine Affairs and Canadian Studies as a guest of the Wilburforce Foundation to speak about climate change and human rights and Inuit land claims in Canada. by Terry Fenge In mid-October Dr. Terry Fenge, an Ottawa-based consultant with extensive experience in Aboriginal and

From front, Rob Williams; David Rosen, Marine Mammal Research Unit, University of British Columbia; Trevor Branch, UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (SAFS); Dawn Noren, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Martin Krkosek, SAFS; and Erin Ashe, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. While migrating from California to Alaska, whales transit a number of local, regional, national

Above: UW Social Work class tours the Strathcona Employment Assistance Services By Morna McEachern Students visit Native Education College. On February 10, twenty seniors from the Bachelor of Social Work program took a trip to Vancouver, B.C. to visit Canadian social service agencies and compare approaches to social services in Canada and the United States

Above: Scott and Kelsey (to Scott’s right), editors of the Task Force report, with Makivik Corporation participants from Nunavik, Canada, Lisa Koperqualak (far right) and Kitty Gordon (far left). By Scott Halliday and Kelsey Barrett The International Studies undergraduate major at the University of Washington is characterized by a cohort of students united in their